Short: Scanner generator f. regular expressions Author: Various (see README), Chris Young (OS4 port) Uploader: chris unsatisfactorysoftware co uk (Chris Young) Type: dev/c Version: 0.12.3 Architecture: ppc-amigaos >= 4.0.0 re2c is a tool for generating C-based recognizers from regular expressions. re2c-based scanners are efficient: for programming languages, given similar specifications, an re2c-based scanner is typically almost twice as fast as a flex-based scanner with little or no increase in size (possibly a decrease on cisc architectures). Indeed, re2c-based scanners are quite competitive with hand-crafted ones.